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Occupational Therapy Susnet Event: Benefits of Cycling to OT Access VisitsMarty and a colleague used bikes for access visit to assess patient's homes for discharge from hospital. They used the…
Key highlights of the article include:
• Examination of current challenges for sustainability in the ICUs and their implications
• Exploration of sustainable practices and their real-world…
Published date
May 2024
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Faisal N. Masud1*, Farzan Sasangohar1, Iqbal Ratnani1, Sahar Fatima1, Marco Antonio Hernandez1, Teal Riley1, Jason Fischer2, Atiya Dhala3, Megan E. Gooch1, Konya Keeling‐Johnson1, Jukrin Moon4 and Jean‐Louis Vincent5
The key to environmental footprint improvement in healthcare and critical care uses the framework: avoiding, reducing, reusing, and recycling without compromising safe, quality care, with simultaneous…
Published date
June 2023
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Heather Baid, principal lecturer, Eleanor Damm, specialty trainee, Louise Trent, intensive care physician, Forbes McGain, associate dean sustainable healthcare
This article aims for readers to be able to:
Outline the importance of the biosphere and its constituent parts.
Describe the impact of pollution and climate change on each other and on the…
Intensive Care Medicine is the journal of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, which has a My Green ICU collection of articles related to improving the environmental sustainability of…
Study comparing an acute care unit with an intensive care unit in the US:
"An acute care unit generates 5.5kg of solid waste and 45kg CO2-e per hospitalization day. The ICU generates 7.1kg of solid…
Published date
December 2021
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Prasad, P. A., Joshi, D., Lighter, J., Agins, J., Allen, R., Collins, M., Pena, F., Velletri, J., & Thiel, C.
British Journal of Anaesthesia, 125 (5): 680e692 (2020)
Forbes McGain, Jane Muret, Cathy Lawson and Jodi D. Sherman
Key points:
The scientific foundation for environmental sustainability in…
Thedegroeneic.nl website is in Dutch forThe Green ICU partnership in the Netherlands, but Chrome has a translation extension to read the content in English.
